The daily vaccination number against Covid-19 in Jharkhand dropped below the 1-lakh-mark for the first time in September on Wednesday as the state managed to administer jabs to about 82,000 residents, figures compiled by the health department highlighted.

As per provisional data released by the National Health Mission (NHM), the state on Wednesday administered the first dose of vaccine to as many as 49,243 residents, while the second jab was administered to at least 32,067 beneficiaries.

Ranchi as well as East Singhbhum vaccinated 10,000-odd residents, while Dhanbad managed to administer vaccine doses to hardly 5,000 beneficiaries. None of the remaining districts managed to vaccinate more than 5,000 residents.

Sources involved in the immunisation drive said that many session sites failed to achieve their target of administering at least 100 vaccine jabs. Some of the session sites closed early after saturating the limited vaccine doses available in stock.

At least six fresh cases of coronavirus infection against four Covid recoveries took the active caseload of Covid-19 in the state to 78, a separate bulletin from NHM stated.

While Ranchi and East Singhbhum reported two Covid cases each, Giridih and Bokaro reported one fresh case of Covid-19 each. The active caseload rose to 47 in Ranchi and six in East Singhbhum as the two districts reported one Covid recovery each.

At least 12 of 24 districts in Jharkhand did not have active cases of Covid-19 by the end of Wednesday, and Ranchi alone accounted for more than 60 per cent of the state’s active cases.

Jharkhand on Wednesday tested swab samples of at least 45,447 residents and 0.01 per cent of them were found infected by SARS-CoV-2 virus. The state has so far reported more than 3.48 lakh Covid cases and 98.50 per cent of the patients have recovered, while 1.47 per cent of patients could not survive.